What my liberal arts degree has taught me

As I am approaching my last year of college, I'm trying to reflect on what my liberal arts degree is going to do for me. As an aspiring writer and a full time reader who is just now discovering that she wants to be a Librarian, I'm living with the impending doom that I may not get my dream job anytime soon. I may even take that gap year and try to, ya know, find myself. And when I say "find myself" I really mean I need a break from schooling and stressing. But what I have learned at my green and white school is how great it is to be a student studying English and concentrating in Creative Writing at Michigan State University.
Not only has my collection of read books doubled and my writing skills have been enhanced, but I have learned the value in communication. Verbal, non-verbal, written word and little notes in my journals. I have learned that the world is words. Collections of letters and sounds making promises and breaking them. Words make us human. Words can hurt us, just like words can heal us. The manipulation of words is really what I am studying and practicing. My liberal arts degree makes me look at the world, and it's words, through curiosity-colored glasses. I am so very thirsty to learn about everything and anything I can, except for calculus. I have no interest in learning calculus.
My liberal arts degree has taught me to be a sponge during the day and a leaking faucet at night. Learning and writing. I love words, I love communication, and I love the things we can learn through watching, living, and loving.
You probably won't see me on Wall Street, and you probably won't see me crunching numbers at an accounting firm and I don't think you will ever see me driving a shiny new car. But I promise you can always count on me to be reading books and writing for my loyal readers. Absorbing new things, even after I have received my degree(s).
Wish me luck, and I wish happiness for you.
XOXO,
A broke and thankful English Major